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Words to describe facial expressions

  • Absent: preoccupied 
  • Agonized: as if in pain or tormented
  • Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire
  • Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest
  • Beatific: blissful
  • Black: angry or sad, or hostile
  • Bleak: hopeless
  • Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern
  • Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent
  • Brooding: anxious and gloomy
  • Bug eyed: frightened or surprised
  • Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed
  • Cheeky: cocky, insolent
  • Cheerless: sad
  • Choleric: hot-tempered, irate
  • Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings
  • Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor
  • Despondent: depressed or discouraged
  • Doleful: sad or afflicted
  • Dour: stern or obstinate
  • Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing
  • Ecstatic: delighted or entranced
  • Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible
  • Fixed: concentrated or immobile
  • Gazing: staring intently
  • Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive
  • Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion
  • Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic
  • Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness
  • Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty
  • Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism
  • Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant
  • Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit
  • Jeering: insulting or mocking
  • Languid: lazy or weak
  • Leering: sexually suggestive
  • Mild: easygoing
  • Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful
  • Pained: affected with discomfort or pain
  • Peering: with curiosity or suspicion
  • Peeved: annoyed
  • Pleading: seeking apology or assistance
  • Quizzical: questioning or confused
  • Radiant: bright, happy
  • Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident
  • Sardonic: mocking
  • Sour: unpleasant
  • Sullen: resentful
  • Vacant: blank or stupid looking
  • Wan: pale, sickly
  • Wary: cautious or cunning
  • Wide eyed: frightened or surprised
  • Withering: devastating
  • Wrathful: indignant or vengeful
  • Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling